“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
A bee drops
into a poppy's cup-
what a life!
Like a shy lover
butterfly bush gently greets
my climbing jasmine.
Near my bird feeder
Mourning dove serenely sat
 while jays ate all the seed.
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“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.